After months of travelling around hostels and changing beds every few days, we were looking forward to settling down in Brisbane and getting our own apartment. We spent five weeks (four weeks too many) living in a central hostel with a party atmosphere before moving to a laid-back “sharehouse”-type hostel closer to my work. Cut …
In this post, I’m going to outline exactly how much this part of the trip cost us, and hopefully it will help some of you to budget what you need. I’ve been working on this for a while and meant to post it along with my other budgeting guides but didn’t think it was ready. …
You may have noticed that I became a .com this week! anorcadianabroad.com is official! I’ve also made a new Facebook page for the blog and I’d really appreciate it if you could give it a like! To celebrate, I’m putting together some guides on saving money and getting the best value out of travel. The …
Australia is notoriously expensive for travelling; another reason amongst many to work and travel in this vast country. We therefore arrived bracing ourselves for the costs, particularly after our cheap as chips travel in Asia. In fact, the first thing I did was go to buy a bottle of water at the airport – a …
Our three months backpacking around Asia were a whirlwind of crazy experiences, fantastic food, mesmerising views, mindblowing sunsets, magnificent temples, beautiful beaches and chaotic cities. It’s hard to narrow it down to five highlights, because there was hardly anywhere that I didn’t love; much less disliked. But there were certain highlights, so here are a …
As pained as we felt to leave Siem Reap behind, we had one huge reason to get to Bangkok: SONGKRAN! Songkran is Thailand’s crazy new year celebration, and they signify cleansing by pouring water on each other; the water brings you good luck for the next year. It sounds calm and peaceful, but make no …
